Pellet testing

I'll get another 5 tins if he has the same run number. Waiting to hear.
I'd be quite happy to have a bigger stash of sorted hunting pellets.
400/500 be nice.

Weighed 1000,4 rejected for skirt damage.
As scales only do to .00 allowing .005 either side of weight.
95% approx fell into the 1.02,1.03,1.04 grms.
1.04 definitely having more than 1.03grms but not by much. 1.02grams less than that but all close, sort of 385,290,225
Of the 5% left 8 were 1.06grams
40% 1.01gram and 60% 1.05grams.

U sure have been busy!
I hope those little yellow plastic dividers are glued down to the bottom of that black container!

Maybe I should be looking at skirts as previous asked.
Found an artical while looking for head sizer.
Quote:
The pellet head need only lightly touch the lands, so that the pellet doesn’t tip back and forth on the way down the bore, but the pellet’s skirt must cut into the rifling to effect an air seal.

In springers, the skirt has a very important second function, as James has pointed out. It interacts with the chamfer at the breech end of the barrel. Together with the pellet's weight, this determines the point in the piston’s travel, at which the pellet begins to move. If the skirt is too small, the pellet takes off too soon; power is lost and there is a minor “slam fire” effect on the piston. If the skirt is too big, the pellet will linger too long and the piston will bounce, again wasting velocity and making more felt recoil.

There is a lot of variety out there both in pellet skirt size (I’ve measured anything from .180” on Crosman ammo to almost .190” on some traditional RWS designs), and the breech chamfer detail (many guns today have a short, sharp-edged angled cut, some have a more carefully designed longer taper, some are in between).

IMHO experimenting with different ammo to match up skirt size vs. breech fit, is a really important part of shooting springers. It can have a huge effect on accuracy, consistent velocity, and firing behavior. It’s long been curious to me that pellet weight and head size seem to get the lion’s share of discussion, while this aspect is rather ignored.